SATIE
Avant-Dernieres Pensees Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) & Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Tharaud deals out Satie's surrealism with style, from tongue-in-cheek Chopin quotes to final cadences that go on and on ... and then some. There are pieces which poke fun at precious Debussian soundscapes and others which take sides with the acerbic... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Edition (Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber, Instrumental & Vocal works) Daniel Barenboim, Cecile Ousset, Karl Leister, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Derek Han, Isabelle Faust, Nash Ensemble, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 58 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2014 ] Brilliant Classics is proud present their Brahms Edition. Now the amazingly varied output by Brahms is there to be enjoyed to its full extent. In excellent recordings on 58 CD's and at an unreasonably low price. |
Faust
Faust (LP) [ Back to Black / LP - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The impact of Faust cannot be overstated; their debut album was truly a revolutionary step forward in the progress of "rock music". It was pressed on clear vinyl, packaged in a clear sleeve, with a clear plastic lyric insert. The black X-ray of a... |
Faust
The Faust Tapes (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late '60s and early '70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, they rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock 'n' roll to start a back-to-basics... |
Faust/Auryn Quartet
Boccherini:flute Quintets [ Cpo / CD ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3 Isabelle Faust (violin), Silke Avenhaus (piano) [ CPO / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] |
ALESSANDRO ROLLA
Rolla: Duets for violin & viola Isabelle Faust (violin) Thomas Riebl (viola) [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] With this 2002 recording originally issued on the Swiss Pan Classics label, violinist Isabelle Faust and violist Thomas Riebl acquaint us with a composer of great distinction, Alessandro Rolla, who would have been otherwise completely forgotten if... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano & violin - Vol.2 Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "True spontaneity is elusive in the recording studio. Faust and Melnikov give the illusion, at least, that they are responding to and recreating the music on the spot. Roll on Vol 3." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2020 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] "In the Concerto, Faust digs deep and her tone has a visceral immediacy that goes straight to the heart of the music...unafraid and unflinching, and vividly unleashes the passion in these pages with mesmeric power." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Isabelle Faust plays Bach Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2022 ] For the past several years, Isabelle Faust has been exploring Johann Sebastian Bach's music for the violin. First came her recording of the solo Sonatas and Partitas, which earned widespread acclaim. It was followed by the sonatas for violin and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Isabelle Faust Solo Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] From Biber's famous 'Guardian Angel' Passacaglia to Guillemain's 'Amusements' and sonatas and fantasias by Matteis (father and son), Pisendel and Vilsmayr, Isabelle Faust offers us a panorama of European music for unaccompanied violin from the second... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Octet D.803 / Fünf Menuette mit sechs Trios D. 89 Isabelle Faust (Violin) with Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] In response to a commission from Count Troyer, who wanted a work closely modelled on Beethoven's famous Septet op.20, Schubert - despite his fervent admiration for the older composer - resolutely struck out on his own by delivering an . . . Octet.... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Sonate D.574 / Rondo op.70 / Fantasie D.934 Isabelle Faust (violin) / Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] "violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov play each variation on 'Sei mir gegrusst' as if they're discovering it for the first time. Their sense of wonder can be heard right from the start of the Fantasy…delectable." CD Review, BBC Radio |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7 "Archduke" Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine WINNER 2015 - Chamber GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Toccata e due canzoni / etc Isabelle Faust (violin) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) / Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "This is a powerful and valuable Martinů anthology and one I would commend as an introduction to the composer." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
FAURE
Violin Sonatas / Romance op.28 / etc Isabelle Faust (violin) Florent Boffard (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "(This) receives from Faust and Boffard an exemplary flowing performance. Altogether an impressive disc." ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Aug 2002) |
THIERRY LANCINO
Violin Concerto & Prelude and Death of Virgil Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestre national de France, Gerard Schwarz / Matteo de Monti (baritone) Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, Arturo Tamay [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Lancino writes of his Violin Concerto that his imagination was fired by 'the thought of a little piece of wood (in reality a 1704 Stradivarius), played by Isabelle Faust, confronting a gigantic machine (the full orchestra)'. |
Isabelle Faust : violin / Paul Meyer : clarinet / Petersen String Quartet
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus - Funabre [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Hartmann was one of the most important and independently-minded German composers of the 20th century. This recording embraces two of his most well-known works, which bridge the epochs of the Late Romantic and the Modern, as well as a premiere... |
MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra (1979) / Coptic Light (1985) Isabelle Faust (violin) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Peter Rundel (conductor) [ Col Legno / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] How does a solo violin relate to an orchestra? Feldman supplies a compelling answer in Violin and Orchestra, and operates the "orchestral pedal" in Coptic Light. |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BARTOK / MARTINU
Violin Concertos & Sonatas [2 CD set] Isabelle Faust (violin) with Alexander Melnikov & Ewa Kupiec (piano) / Prague Philharmonia [ Harmonia Mundi Initiales / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Isabelle Faust makes an intelligent, passionate debut as a major soloist in my book. These Beethoven readings have waked me from my dogmatic slumbers. A sensational album, I dare say." (AudAud.com on the Beethoven) |